Access from a class attribute

[Ben Finney]

Kless <jonas.esp at googlemail.com> writes:

> Why can not to access from a class attribute to a function of that
> class?
> 
> -----------------
> class Foo(object):
>    attr = __class__.__name__
>    attr = self.__class__.__name__
> -----------------

The ‘self’ name is not magical. If you want it bound to something, you
have to bind it explicitly; it's exactly like any other name.

You will have noticed this being done in methods of a class:

    class Foo(object):
        attr = 'spam'

        def frobnicate(self, bar):
            self.attr = str(bar)

The statements in the method are evaluated in the context of a specific
call to that method, where the parameters have been passed and bound to
the parameter names.

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Ben Finney